Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1887-03-23
NEWS CONDENSED.
TeIsgvaphic Summary Of lmpor.
tant Happenings at Home
and Abroad.
THE EAST.

The Whitestone steamer Idlewild coll
liled with and sunk the schooner A. W.
Thompson of Winfield, L. 1. Three lives
were lost.
In the opening OF the trial OF Thos.
Cleafy, the indicted b. odle Alderman of
Now York City, Mrs. Massett, an old lady
who lived next door 10 Alderman McLaugh.
lin, gave substantially the same testimony
she had given in the McQuade and ONeill
trials, a. did Katy Metz, who was in her
employ.
TIE President has pardoned Dennie
Kelly, of Maine, convicted OF man-
slaughter, and Geo. H. Daubner, Of Wis
consin, convicted Of pension frauds. As
both convicts have served their full terms
Of imprisonment, the only effect of the
pardons N to restore them to citizenship.
The Sheriff seized the establishment Of
Lawton Bros, New York, dealers in phos-
pilates, whose liabilities are said to be
81 900, 900. The senior Lawton has fed
with all the funds he could raise, since
when excited creditors have besieged the
house where examinations of the firms
affairs were being made. 1t is assertained
that the absconding Lawton is defaulter
to the amount Of $500, 900, which he doubt.
took with him.
AT Buffalo, N. Y, on the 18th inst, the
Richmond Hotel and st. James Hall were
destroyed by fire, and fully thirty people
perished in the flames. The number seri.
ously injured is estimated to be twenty
two, several of whom will probably die.
The loss of property is $400,0 900, mostly in
sured. Origin Of the fire unknown.
The will Of the late G. G. Sickles, OF
New York, is understood to dispose Of
about $5,O00,O0O worth Of property, each
Of his daughters receiving $50,000, his
widow one third, and his only heir, Gen.
Sickles. the residue.
THEfailure Of Congress to provide the
code asked by Commissioner Black for
the adjustment of the Mexican pension
claims is likely to keep the benefciaries
OF that measure ont OF their money for
long me. The Commissioner asked for
about 200 clerks to keep the cnrrent work
up, but the appropriations committee did
not make any allowance for them, and con-
sequently the Mexican pensioners will
have to wait until the current work on the
War of the Rebellion is completed.
The repeal Of the capital punishment
law he's been effected in Maine, and inn
prisonment for life is substituted for death
in all cases of murder in the first degree.
Such convicts, however, are to be kept in
close confinement, away from all associa-
tions, and no pardoning power is left to
the Governor and Council unless the con-
vict is proved innocent.
GEORGE MURRELL, an Italian, went to
the house Of James Barrett, who lives near
the Spencer mines, few miles from
Scranton, Pa, and quarreled with Barrett
about Q woman named Collins. who was
in Barrett's house. Barrett tried to eject
Murrell aud the latter cut him with knife
or razor. Some Italians, hearing the noise
of the row, ran to the house and melee
followed, in which Barrett shot George
and Jose Murrell dead, and fatally wounds
ed Francisco Mato with shotgun. Bar
rett says he acted in self-defense.
The Chinese m mister at Washington,
one of the richest men of his race. took
with him to photographer jewels worth
100000 and a dozen changes of cos
tune, and had himself taken in different
positions.